My host machine is Windows XP. My guest is Debian Etch. I had this up and running fine. I did not have any problems. This morning I try to install some apps and none of the repositories can be found. I tried to ping to the outside world. No joy. ifconfig does not report any configured adapters except for localhost. lsmod reports the pcnet32 drivers are installed. dmesg reports eth0 is registered as as PCnet/FAST III. lspci reports the Ethernet controller as AMD PCnet32 LANCE. However, when running ifconfig eth0 it reported "eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found".
I'm not a great troubleshooter with linux and being that it is virtual just makes it that much more of a mystery to me. I'm not sure if this is a Vbox or Debian problem. Any help would be appreciated.
[Solved]Linux guest: No network connectivity.
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Sasquatch
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regularfry
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I've just had exactly this problem; it took me a good couple of hours to track down. The key is that Debian records the MAC address of the network adapter in its udev rules, so you can't change it externally without also changing it internally. This also means that if you copy the vdi to another host (like I did), you need to duplicate the MAC address setting in VirtualBox as well.
There's a closed virtualbox bug at http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/660 with more details.
There's a closed virtualbox bug at http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/660 with more details.